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I lost that screw a couple of times. I solved the problem with a slightly larger and longer screw that goes all the way in to the bottom of the chassis pan. It's never come out despite several brutal crashes, one of which took a wheel off.

well today i really did it ! i broke the front on my chassis , bent my driveshaft also snaped the little spline things in the ends of the shaft . i also broke the pinion gear on the end of my motor . lets see i also broke the cooling fan on top my esc pluss basically ruined a 3s lipo 8500 mah battery on just its second charge . busted a front bumper , body mount , and broke one wheel that also shreded the tire !! lets just say i now where this weeks pay check will be going!

well today i really did it ! i broke the front on my chassis , bent my driveshaft also snaped the little spline things in the ends of the shaft . i also broke the pinion gear on the end of my motor . lets see i also broke the cooling fan on top my esc pluss basically ruined a 3s lipo 8500 mah battery on just its second charge . busted a front bumper , body mount , and broke one wheel that also shreded the tire !! lets just say i now where this weeks pay check will be going!

Have to change my statement on post 170..sorry guys, feel like an ****.....There was never any problem with the rear diff...it looks like NIB, still a lot of sand in that house ...but the only issue was stripped spur

Snapped the inboard hinge pin of the strc rear arms that I used to do the "wide mod" on my rustler as well as the bottom mount of my proline shock :-( was all at slow speed as well, clipped a fence going round a corner at snapped then clean off.

Seems I keep breaking the hpi grub pins that I use on my mip's. Wasn't a big deal until I lost half of one of the front drive shafts lucky for me I was bashing in a smallish area and found it about 50' away from my pickup.

Starting to think about MIP's for the front since I'm starting to like my 3s LiPo.

I've got MIPs on the back and IntegyXHD steel shafts on the front. They come already assembled at half the price, and look like a copy of the same design. So far, no problems except lost one grub screw. I replaced both w/ Traxxas 5145 pin that goes all the way throught the axle and output shaft, and loctited it in.

My son and I took our Stampede's our four times this weekend. Twice on Saturday and twice yesterday. First outing at the park only a shock cap popped off on his. Now that we take out tool box everytime we take out the trucks, it was a quick 5 minute fix.

After charging the batteries, we went out agian that evening before dark. This time I attached an older digital camera on mine hoping to get some video. Unfortunatly, a car came around the corner and my Stampede went under it. Didnt damage the Stampede, but hosed the camera.

Nothing broke went we went to the park Sunday morning. Lots of fun was had though.

Sunday evening we went to my sons school. He drove his Stamede and I let his little brother drive mine. Had a lot of fun flying around the grass field. Even had a girl ask if it was ok for her dogs the chase the trucks around. Everything seemes to go well until we got home and cleaned up the trucks. Found a bent front shock shaft on my sons and a broken axle stub on mine. Ordered a bunch of spare parts on eBay last night, and will pick up parts today at lunch to get us up and going while we wait for the spares.

Seems like every weekend costs us about $5-$10 in parts. Not having enough fun unless something breaks. Just got to make sure we stay stocked up on spares.

Was doin wheelies in the grass, didnt c the little stick get stuck in the a arm , and snapped a right rear stub axle. Its been a year since i broke a stub , so i cant really complain, heh.

Now that you mention that, I bet my stub axle was broken before ever going out for the second time yesterday. In the morning we were running through a playground that had bark laid down that looked like a tree that went through a shredder. My sons chassis looked like it was being used as a shovel. I bet one of those little shreds of tree broke my stub axle.

It's not too bad. I need to get a new chassis, all the scratches make it look bad. The bad part for the maintenance is that it's much more time consuming to work on and all the parts cost more than the p4de or sl4sh.

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is the 12mm hex system that bad, or are the wheel nuts just loosening up? I have run a ton of power through the plastic hexes, and have only rounded the hexes out if I forgot to tighten down a wheel nut?

Just got done cruising the streets and aggrivating all the dogs. Hit a water meter in my neighbors yard. It was sticking out the ground surrounded by metal. I broke the front right protrac arm at the chassis pin and the camber rod end. Hope i can order just the front protrac arms.

Didnt actually break anything, but lost a pin from one of my MIP rear axles. My son and I reveived our new 2S LiPos in the mail today, charged them and took the trucks out. Within 10 minutes I lost the pin.

Didnt actually break anything, but lost a pin from one of my MIP rear axles. My son and I reveived our new 2S LiPos in the mail today, charged them and took the trucks out. Within 10 minutes I lost the pin.

I purchased my Stampede used and it came with the MIP axles. Can't be sure that he put them together correctly, so I'm going to fully disasemble them and put them back together correctly. He did use some sort of threadlocker. Just not red or blue. It was either white or grey. Whatever he did, its going to get re-done right by me.